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it's Friday may 17 2013 I'm Nathan only lettuce Giles everywhere you go everywhere you look it's 90 seconds on the verge presented by virgin mobile yahoo is reportedly looking to up its cool factor by buying tumblr according to all things d in ad week yahoo has been holding talks with the blogging service an acquisition deal could be worth as much as 1 billion dollars Yahoo is expected to hold the news event this Monday in New York City is tumblr talk on the schedule will it be announced in the stream of gifts we'll find out soon enough Yahoo's not alone however forbes reports at Facebook and Microsoft are also interested if you're a wii u owner don't count on any new games from electronic arts EA told kotaku that it doesn't have any titles for Nintendo's latest console and development the publisher had already suggested that its new Star Wars and Madame games wouldn't be coming but no games at all is a very different proposition but all is not lost for Wii U fans Nintendo will be showing off several unreleased games this summer in kiosks at Best Buy and finally a security flaw on iTunes is allowing users to download streaming albums for free itunes regularly makes albums available to stream ahead of their release but a URL scraping tool can provide a direct link to the audio files themselves albums like Daft Punk's random access memories and a new record from the national are all effective a similar problem struck Spotify last week but the flaw can't make record labels happy particularly because it's coming from Apple itself that's it for today's top stories join us next week when DJ it brings a horse into the living room you guys want to go to smash Club